Portfolio help

[tombarrettillo]

Hello,
The image below includes all the final sketches I plan to color for my illustration portfolio. But, before I start, I would appreciate any comments or suggestions on any of the number illustrations. I don't expect everyone to inspect every numbered image, but if something stands out, let me know. The image is fairly big as I did not want to upload 14 individual images here. If you click on it, you should be able to view the larger image. Thank you in advance!

[TessaW]

Hi Tom. This is looking so great and you have a solid collection of sketches to work from. It's pretty cool that you are doing a whole bunch of them before you start painting. Seems like a pretty good way to work.

I'd say if you took them to finish as is, they would all be great. I do have a suggestion on where I feel you could improve as a whole- and that is with exaggerating your gestures a bit. This is perhaps a personal preference, but I think you could nudge your gestures a tad more to really illustrate the feeling of each character.

I've manipulated your images to hopefully illustrate what I'm talking about. I mainly used liquify, so they may look a bit distorted.

Thanks for sharing these, and I'm very excited to see these come together as finished pieces.

[lmrush]

@tombarrettillo these are fantastic I love the emotion you can convey- nice job!

[tombarrettillo]

Thanks, @TessW. I appreciate the tips on the poses!

Thanks @lmrush

[Katrina Fowler]

These are great. I especially like the elephant in different poses. I also like the different POV's in 10 with the two different chicken coop images. Look forward to seeing in color.

[tombarrettillo]

thanks! @Katrina-Fowler